ANP 220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Medical Anthropology, Ethnomedicine, Ethnography
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The sense of disorientation caused by the overwhelmingly new and unfamiliar people and experiences encountered during field work. Culture shock the trust and friendship that ethnographers establish with research subjects. According to the text medical anthropologist see health as a product of. The environment, with absence of poverty and violence critical factors for good health. Which of the following statements does not reflect the description of biomedicine in the text its values of individualism and rationality are universally held. Chinese medicine conceptualizes qi as an energy found in all living things. Health includes not merely the absence of infirmity, but also complete physical mental and _______ well being. Epidemiology is defined as the study of the spread of disease and pathogens through human population. The case of lia lee significant for medical anthropologists because she experienced the tensions of medical pluralism as her familys beliefs did not mesh with the physicians.
